Bug#40706: Reasons for not moving at all

[Gordon Matzigkeit <gord@fig.org>]

Marcus's argument here is most compelling.  It is not the present cost
of Manoj's proposal that is prohibitive, it is the future cost of all
those prerm scripts.  And so, I formally object to this proposal.

However, Manoj's arguments against other ways of moving to
/usr/share/doc still hold: any one-shot change will likely end up
breaking compatibility.

So, I am now convinced that not moving at all is the only sane thing
we can do.  Let's focus our energies on working on actual potato bugs
rather than trying to appease the evil FHS gods.

I think all I can say is that it may have been a terrible idea for
people to start using /usr/doc in the first place, but it definitely
is a worse idea now for the FHS to move this directory to
/usr/share/doc.  What is the rationale for this change, when all
distributions already use /usr/doc?

Can somebody remind me again why it's so important to be FHS-compliant
on this issue?  Why not just change the few /usr/share/doc packages
back to /usr/doc,

 ln -s /usr/doc /usr/share/doc  # FHS compatibility

and be done with it?

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